Africa No Filter offers media grants to women storytellers

DEADLINE: APRIL 11, 2022 — Africa No Filter is offering media grants to women storytellers and women-owned media organisations and outlets.

Journalists, bloggers, vloggers, content creators, podcasters can apply for Project Support grants worth up to $10,000 while organisations can apply for Operational Support and Capacity-Building grants of up to $25,000.

Applicants should have a track record of work that challenges stereotypical narratives of Africa through innovative, creative and compelling storytelling.

Interested organisations must be based in Africa and female-led. Organisations must have been in operation for more than a year.

For individual grants, applicant must be an African Woman living on the continent or the Diaspora.

The deadline for applications is April 11, 2022.

APPLY HERE

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